''Epepeotes desertus'' is a species of flat-faced longhorns

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

belonging to the family

Cerambycidae The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by anten ...

, subfamily

Lamiinae Lamiinae, commonly called flat-faced longhorns, are a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). The subfamily includes over 750 genera, rivaled in diversity within the family only by the subfamily Cerambycinae Cerambycinae is a s ...

Description

''Epepeotes desertus'' reaches about in length.

Distribution

This species can be found in

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List of subspecies

* ''Epepeotes desertus desertus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Epepeotes desertus obscurus'' Aurivillius, 1926 * ''Epepeotes desertus rhobetor'' (Newman, 1842)

References

Biolib

Catalogue of Life

Global species

Laminaires du monde

External links

* F. Vital
Worldwide Cerambycoidea Photo Gallery

desertus Beetles described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Lamiini-stub